Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Most people just want a good life. If we stopped seeing each other as the enemies the world could be better.

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Often there is some sort of emotional conflict that makes you go to hate for emotional self protection. Chances are your mindset is part of the problem. To stop hating you need to be vulnerable.

I wish I learned that younger in life

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People who haven't really resumed socializing at levels they used to, people who lost the capacity to regulate during interpersonal interactions, people who lost trust in others... I encounter lots of partial returners out there

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Maybe some alien civilization does know about us, but it slightly afraid since we spec'ed in the war tree instead of space travel.

They kept letting us advance our war machines until one day they needed us. To help stop a greater evil; since they went space exploration instead of guns

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Also: The people don't change. The pool of people your age that you could meet doesn't change, it only gets smaller.

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The static on old CRT TVs with rabbit ears was the cosmic microwave background. No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.

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Passing the event horizon, spaghettification, and certain death await. Yarrr.

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death is wasted on the dead

e. i was indeed wet when i had this thought

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I thought of this in the shower, then deleted it when someone in a discord I asked it to eventually said duh it's Michael Jackson, and another replied Michael Jordan you dumbass ... oof ... but then while deleted it got upvotes somehow so whatever lol

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You'd think it was back in elementary school and she is teacher escorting me around with my hall pass.

She be like:

Let's talk Turkey^Dinner™️^

— weirdo!

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VHS tapes are a horror trope now.

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I guess now we know what all of the predator-deterring eyes on the angels are for.

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I always hit snooze on my alarm clock, but I jump right out of bed if I hear someone puking or gagging (e.g., kids or my dog).

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